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UK Lead Organisation:
County Lead Organisation:
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Objectives
- To maintain the biodiversity of appropriate cereal field margins within the county.
Policy
- Lobby for positive conservation incentives and further grant aid for the creation and sympathetic management of field margins. (SWT, RSPB and other NGOs)
- Seek to encourage the placement of 2-6 metre field margins along streams and brooks adjacent to or within arable fields. (DEFRA, FWAG)
Protection
- Some compounds have statutory label exemptions preventing their use on the outermost six metre strips of crops to prevent over-spraying of watercourses and protect non-cropped habitats.
- Under the Food & Environment Act 1985 it is currently illegal to spray directly into hedge bottoms unless they have off-label exemptions.
Management, Monitoring, Research and Survey
- Seek to restore and create further areas of arable field margins in appropriate areas. (DEFRA, FWAG, FoM, TNF)
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Seek to focus restoration in areas of high biodiversity (e.g. barn owl sites) to increase the network of field margins. (DEFRA, FWAG)
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Funding for arable field margin enhancements is available under the Environmental Stewardship.
Advisory
Further Information
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